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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Tolpis
|accepted_authority=Adanson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Pl.
|place=2: 112, 612. 1763
|year=1763
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Tolpis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tolpis]]</div></div>
|etymology=No etymology in protologue; no readily discernible meaning from Greek or Latin roots
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 218
|treatment_page=page 277
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials, shrubs], 5–100+ cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect, branched distally, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; basal sessile or petiolate, distal usually sessile; blades ovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed or pinnatisect (faces glabrous or sparsely pubescent or arachnose to villous). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays (terminal heads often surpassed by others). <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated, bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 8–13, linear to filiform bractlets (often intergrading with peduncular bracts). <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 5–10[–15+] mm diam. (larger in fruit). <b>Phyllaries</b> 20–25+ in 2+ series, lance-linear to linear (± navicular proximally, enfolding ovaries/cypselae of subtended florets, sometimes keeled abaxially), subequal to equal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices filiform, faces ± arachnose. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 30–100+; corollas mostly yellow (inner sometimes purplish or brown). <b>Cypselae</b> brownish to blackish, ± columnar [obconic], not beaked, ribs or nerves usually 6–8(–10), faces glabrous or ± hirtellous; pappi persistent, of 4–15(–30+), whitish, smooth or barbellulate, setiform scales plus bristles (often equal on outer cypselae and unequal on inner ones). <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Africa;Atlantic Islands.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
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name=Tolpis
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Adanson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Europe;Africa;Atlantic Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fam. Pl.
|publication year=1763
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Tolpis
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